Jason Kendall
Jason Kendall is news editor of the Shawnee Dispatch.
Recent stories
- Shawnee boy honored in Rose Bowl parade
- December 31, 2013
- Shawnee’s youngest police officer is about to earn another notable distinction — Rose Bowl parade honoree.
- Kendall: What do you want for Christmas?
- December 24, 2013
- My family specializes in unusual Christmases. There was the Christmas Eve when the lights went out. It was 1987, and we were living in a tiny apartment building, stacked alongside 8 million other people in Seoul, the capital city of South Korea.
- Tina Marie’s in Shawnee bakes up a sweet Christmas deal
- December 18, 2013
- A Shawnee-area resident since 1988, originally from Indiana, Tina Marie Myers has been in the food-service industry all her life.
- No gunshots in Shawnee elementary school lockdown
- December 17, 2013
- Nieman Elementary School was briefly locked down Tuesday afternoon when someone called the school to report hearing nearby gunshots, but the area is clear, according to Shawnee police.
- Police: Shawnee bank robbed by man with sawed-off shotgun
- December 16, 2013
- Shawnee police are investigating an armed robbery at the Intrust Bank near Barker Road and Shawnee Mission Parkway.
- Johnson County Christmas Bureau serves 13,000 in need
- December 11, 2013
- As Karen Boyd sorted through stacks of Barbies and Bratz dolls Saturday morning, a patient line was forming in the toddler-gifts section of the former Marshalls at Great Mall of the Great Plains in Olathe.
- Christmas Around Town to light up Shawnee on Saturday
- December 4, 2013
- What was Christmas in Shawnee like 84 years ago?
- Kendall: A kinder, gentler Shawnee public meeting?
- December 4, 2013
- There’s more to it than meets the eye. That was the upshot of a column I wrote in this space, back in August, about Shawnee lawmakers’ ongoing review of the city’s policies regarding how to conduct public meetings.
- Shawnee boutique owner inspires Small Business Saturday push
- November 26, 2013
- Sandwiched between two big holiday shopping days this weekend — Black Friday and Cyber Monday — Small Business Saturday could get lost in the shuffle of countdown deals and blowout prices on flat-screen TVs. But one Shawnee business owner is determined not to let that happen.
- Potential Johnson County legal-notice deal may violate state law
- November 4, 2013
- The Johnson County Commission has moved one step closer to awarding the Kansas City Star and its sister publication The Olathe News a bid for legal notices despite the objection of two Kansas newspapers.
Recent photos
Tina Marie Myers has lived in Shawnee since 1988. Ask about her pumpkin cupcakes.
People wait in line to select donated gifts Saturday at the Johnson County Christmas Bureau's Holiday Shop in Olathe.
Longtime Shawnee resident Beata Foreman opened by B boutique! in July.
By B boutique! in Shawnee specializes in custom gifts, handmade crafts and vintage items.
The art glass globes begin life as a piece of glass the size of a large marshmallow.
Point of View
What’s your favorite place in Shawnee, and why?
“The magic bike path (75th and Pflumm) winds lazily through water and trees. I feel like I’m in fairy tale land!”
